Guest Blog Post: PAA’s RHAPSODY Hip-Hop Summer Arts Camp Empowered Our Daughter to Dream Big

Guest Blog: Hip-Hop Camp Taught our Daughter to Dream Big

Above: Guest Bloggers Ken Espenschied and Regina Jolly Espenschied of Olmsted Township with their daughter Liz following last year’s RHAPSODY Hip-Hop Summer Arts Camp concert performance.

Imagination and Invention at South Euclid Library

Today is the last day of our first camp as Maker Corps members at Progressive Arts Alliance! The camp, Imagination and Invention: Creating Chain Reaction Sculptures, was held at the South Euclid Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library…

Camp Base Solon! What a Troop!

This week has been awesome. Today is the last day for this camp, so we’ll get to see the final presentations of what kind of kinetic sculptures the kids have created in their groups. We have almost 30 kids in this camp, it is the biggest camp we have had so far — we have a…

Playing with Light

As an artist-educator, I especially enjoy working with curriculum content where art and science naturally overlap. The study…

Working in Scratch and Materials Hunting

As Stephanie mentioned in her post, we have done a lot of active preparing this week to start the Imagination and Invention camp. One of the major components of this preparation was learning Scratch which is a free program that serves as a beginners guide to…

Build! Build! Build!

Lots of innovating, arguing, contemplating, and laughter! Second week as a Maker Corps at the Cuyahoga County Public Library Southeast Branch was very different, wild, experimental, and fun all at the same time. We have an older age group which changes a lot of things in comparison to the…

Third Imagination and Invention Camp

This week Steph, Ainsley and I went out Solon for our camp. Being our third camp now Steph and I have started taking lead on some of the lessons for the camp which was exciting. The kids this week have shown a huge passion for making and programming. So many cool…

Second Camp at Bedford Library

Steph and I are working with Lauren at our second Imagination and Invention Camp at Bedford Library this week. The kids have shown an incredible amount of drive in this camp and even though they had less time to build they have accomplished a great deal. The projects are…

First Week of Maker Corps 2015

Our first week of Maker Corps at PAA has gone pretty smoothly and lots of work has been done in preparation for the crazy fun and adventure-filled summer ahead of us. We can’t wait to start brainstorming and making cool things with everyone as we finalize some of the last…

Camp Base South Euclid Library!

This was our first camp of the summer, and I would say that it went pretty great! We had them split up into their own groups of choice after friendly introductions. The kids immediately started building like busy machines after lots and lots of demos on the Scratch program…